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Johann Adolph Hasse

Born: 25th March 1699, Germany

Died: 16th December 1783, Venice

Nationality: German

Johann Adolph Hasse was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music. Married to soprano Faustina Bordoni and a great friend of librettist Pietro Metastasio, whose libretti he frequently set, Hasse was a pivotal figure in the development of opera seria and 18th-century music.

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Recording of the Week, Hasse's Serpentes Ignei in Deserto from Thibault Noally and Les Accents

Philippe Jaroussky (as Moses) leads a cast which includes Julia Lezhneva, Jakub Józef Orliński and Bruno de Sá in Hasse's Old Testament oratorio, written for the girls of the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice when he was enjoying his first flush of fame as an opera-composer.

Interview, Max Cencic on Hasse's Il Siroe Re di Persia

Katherine talks to the Croatian countertenor about his rehabilitation of an opera that was 'praised to the skies' in its day…

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